Conversica

JANUARY 24, 2019

A guest blog by Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight. Or late at night?

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Rev

MARCH 23, 2018

When it comes to traditional sales, it seems the standard method is to push as many prospects through the funnel as quickly as possible until they make a purchase, fill out a form, subscribe to a newsletter, or whatever “call to action” goal may be. That outcome alone is reason enough to say the traditional sales cycle is broken.

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SnapApp

JULY 18, 2018

In addition, a longer sales cycle requires more time and resources. To address this, B2B marketers have turned their attention toward content marketing—increasing demand generation, engagement, and overall leads through quality content that provides value to the prospective buyers. Quality Content Isn’t Enough.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 29, 2021

What is bottom-of-funnel (BoFu) marketing? Bottom-of-funnel marketing is a strategy that aligns with the latest “decision” stage of the buyer’s journey. Funnels have become ubiquitous in a marketer’s day-to-day life. Funnels have become ubiquitous in a marketer’s day-to-day life.

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SmarkLabs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Plenty of things you do as a marketer each day fall under the “demand generation” umbrella. Think of it as any activity that brings attention to your B2B company to bring people into your sales funnel. It’s about keeping in mind where people are in their buying journey when tailoring your marketing materials to them. .

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Biznology

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Content marketing takes time and effort. When marketers don’t see results, determining the return on investment isn’t easy. Simply posting a blog per day won’t amount to anything if you’re not taking your customers’ sales cycles into account and adjusting your marketing strategy accordingly. Mid-market.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The same could be said for alignment across the revenue team: marketing, sales, and often customer success. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategy that B2B organizations use to target high-value accounts that accelerate pipeline and revenue growth. The problem with sales and marketing team misalignment .

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Lattice

JULY 19, 2016

And since Q4 is historically the biggest quarter for most sales teams, now is the time for companies to identify any issues with their revenue funnel, and determine ways to fix those problems so Q4 is a runaway success, not a flop. But what happens if there are multiple issues with a company’s revenue funnel?

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6sense

OCTOBER 18, 2021

RepTrak had traditionally relied on old-fashioned tactics, a subpar tech stack, and unreliable data for its marketing efforts. The marketing qualified lead (MQL) reigned supreme — and an MQL was anyone who showed any kind of engagement. CEOs and board members told me, ‘We think marketing is dark magic. The Solution.

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Conversica

JUNE 26, 2020

A collaborative blog post with contributions from Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight.

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SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Understanding buyer intent has become crucial to marketing, sales, and revenue operations (RevOps) strategies in the current competitive business climate. Why Intent Data is Crucial in Modern Marketing and Sales: Marketing and sales professionals face an uphill battle in reaching and converting potential customers.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The rate at which marketers have moved towards an account-based marketing (ABM) model is quite surprising. I remember when ABM was the ultimate buzz word at the Marketing Nation Summit a couple years ago. With any marketing strategy, the number one question you are going to be asked is what the performance of your campaign is.

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markempa

JUNE 17, 2012

“But, if I’m a VP of Sales, I’ll be really peeved if you lose to ‘no decision,’ because you probably wasted my time as well as a lot of resources around the company in terms of getting help from manufacturing, customer support and finance — all to get to the point where nothing happened.”. No deal = broken sales cycle.

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Optinmonster

JULY 22, 2019

Are you looking for ways to shorten your sales cycle and make people buy sooner? The less time a lead spends in your sales funnel, the more return on investment (ROI) for you! In this article, you’ll find 15 effective ways to shorten your sales cycle and start making money from your marketing efforts sooner.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 20, 2021

Overflowing the sales funnel with leads doesn’t necessarily guarantee more paying customers in the end. Abundant lead conversion can happen when sales reps practice meaningful engagement with them throughout the sales funnel. Leads transform into customers by stepping through a carefully curated sales funnel.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. So let’s dive in — here’s what’s top-of-mind for these marketing leaders, along with some sage advice for their peers. Marketing — in this economy? Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations.

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The Point

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Budgeting season is here again, and demand marketers are not immune. Based on the work we do with our agency’s B2B clients , here’s a basic, funnel-based approach to determining a realistic demand gen budget based on specific revenue targets: 1. Define the percentage of that revenue (or pipeline) for which marketing is responsible.

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Within sales, moving plenty of high-value opportunities successfully through the pipeline is the goal of every sales VP. That movement is measured by pipeline velocity, a way for you to see exactly how you are succeeding in getting your prospects from one end of the funnel to the other. Or, ideally, both!

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Conversica

JUNE 26, 2020

A collaborative blog post with contributions from Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. The key is identifying the sales metrics that matter most and getting ahead of pitfalls with actions like managing dashboards correctly. . Funnel Conversion Rate. Focus on Reactive vs Proactive.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 25, 2021

ABM is transforming marketing. Yet, we are still running forecast and funnel reviews just as we did decades ago … interrogating and inspecting deals to assess the quality of the funnel to meet the number. Forecast vs Funnel Review. Neglecting the Early Funnel. Agile transformed engineering teams.

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Todd Abbott , CEO of InsightSquared , and Tanner Mezel , VP of Sales and Marketing at DSG , recently hosted the webinar, “Improving Funnel Throughput with Analytics & Coaching.” Together, the experts gave a detailed guide on how sales leaders can improve their company’s funnel throughput with analytics and coaching.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 20, 2021

Overflowing the sales funnel with leads doesn’t necessarily guarantee more paying customers in the end. Abundant lead conversion can happen when sales reps practice meaningful engagement with them throughout the sales funnel. Leads transform into customers by stepping through a carefully curated sales funnel.

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Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter. According to our first party research conducted among our IFP audience, lead quality is the key focus for 40% of senior B2B marketers.

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. Rethinking Your Marketing Automation Migration Strategy Proven strategies to reduce risk, accelerate “time-to-live,” and optimize performance. And it takes an average of 20 touches with a brand before a prospect becomes a potentially successful lead for the sales team.

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. Faced with marketing budgets cuts, CMOs planned to spend less on live events (obviously) and online advertising, and relatively more on content marketing and online self-service. No surprise there.

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Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

During the digital transformation of marketing and the shift to digital channels for communications since COVID, webinars have become a cornerstone for many B2B marketers. This new study highlighted the challenges marketers face with webinars as well as their potential.

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The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

B2B marketing has seen a dramatic change in the last decade, driven by radical advances in marketing technology and the emergence of new channels. Content marketing is dead. * Content marketing is dead. * Change in marketing is an evolution, not a coup. Cold-calling is dead. The MQL is dead. . The MQL is dead.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 2, 2023

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing There are two core schools of thought when structuring your B2B lead and opportunity stages–simplified or complex. A few arguments exist for using a simplified versus a more complex set of stages in B2B marketing and sales.

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Terminus

APRIL 28, 2020

Marketing earned its seat at the executive table by partnering directly with sales and signing up to own a number. 15 years ago, with the birth of marketing automation, it was all about leads. Then, with the shift to marketing as a revenue-driver, it was opportunities, then pipeline. And it’s about time.

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Contently

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the complex marketing strategies most of us design today, models like “multi-touch” and “omni-touch” are crucial to genuinely mapping ROI to every piece of content in the buyer’s journey. So why use single-touch attribution in a 21st-century marketing context? Why Use Single-Touch Attribution?

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

A documented industrial marketing strategy is critical for success. Did you know 80% of successful content marketers have a documented content marketing strategy? Implementing hit-or-miss content marketing tactics is not likely to produce the results you want. Table of Contents What is an Industrial Marketing Strategy?

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BenchmarkONE

AUGUST 21, 2019

Effective B2B marketing today is all about personalization. Getting inside knowledge about customer behaviors — including how they navigate to a page, what they click on when they get there, and what they read — is invaluable, both in terms of personalized marketing and for collecting data that helps guide future marketing decisions.

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The Marketing Blender

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

At the Marketing Blender, we understand the frustrations and questions that business owners have, and we’re here to help you find the solutions you need. Insufficient Marketing Investment for B2B Revenue Growth One of the primary reasons your revenue might not be growing as quickly as you want is underinvesting in marketing.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 16, 2024

When it comes to marketing insights, your CEO is primarily interested in one thing: attribution. In other words: which marketing efforts are driving the most revenue, and what is the return on investment of the marketing spend? So, which CRM marketing insights does your CEO want to see? 2: Funnel Velocity What is it?

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